Run, Spy, Run

LORD EDMOND BURNS. Labor Leader, Great Britain. Died June 1, 1963. English Atlantic coast. Crash shortly after takeoff of World Airways plane. Seventy-nine killed. Explosion of undetermined origin. Suspicion of pilot error proved unfounded. Evidence of behind-scenes meddling. See below. Burns replaced by Jonathan Welles, well known for sympathies with Red Chinese.

AHMED TAL BARIN. Pacifist-Neutralist, India. Died July 13, 1963. Pacific Ocean, U.S. Orienta Airlines plane exploded, killing sixty-seven. Cause unproven. Indian Pacifist faction led by Tal Barin now being swayed by supporters of Red Chinese.

AUGUSTO LA DILDA. Lola Party President, Peru. Died August 6, 1963. North Africa. Afro-American Airlines turboprop exploded and crashed. Thirty-seven dead. Explosion blamed on individual sending bomb on board in father's suitcase for insurance benefits. Moderate Lola Party dissolved, reformed; now believed sympathetic to Red Chinese influences in Peru.

PABLO VALDEZ. Cabinet Secretary, Minirio. Died September 3, 1963. Idlewild Airport, New York City, N.Y. Explosion on field killed eleven. Cause undetermined. Minirio increasingly subjected to Communist Chinese infiltration in recent months. Government now in state of chaos. Successor to Valdez not yet named.

The bulk of the file contained dossiers and reports from CAB, eyewitnesses, foreign authorities and airline officials; reports from the insurance companies connected with the wrecks, giving details of the various claims made by relatives; and the complete biographies of the first three diplomats involved. There were one or two gaps in the story of Valdez, but that was to be expected under the circumstances. No doubt more information would soon be available.

The one glaring, inescapable fact was that four men had died in airplane tragedies — four men who had held positions of power that the Red Chinese might be exceedingly happy to see vacated. Each man had stood in the way of some kind of Red Chinese power grab.

Surely not coincidence but master plan.